I was looking at putting a bigger system in when I go to build a new house, but will keep my eye on things other than Bose.
What is your recommendation for something in a home theater system that won't take up half the room for its components? I have limited access to a place to listen to these things or view them and hate the super stores chock full o electronics. The smaller specialty places like their products too and charge a lot for them.
Bose quality is not in question....
They build a solid little product and give great customer service.
Which they SHOULD since their products are grossly, GROSSLY (I just can't stress this hard enough) over-priced.
That's one reason I went with the Bose 3-2-1, it's an all in one (radio/cd/dvd with hookups for VCR, Satellite and TV) that takes up very little space and puts a good sound in my small listening area.
I was glad to see that, 5 years after everybody else, Bose finally got into the 21st century by coming out with a DVD based product.
That is until I went to hook one up.
Arrrghhh...just ONE S-Video input!
Might as well not have ANY.
Five years to think about it...and they STILL screw the pooch!
What is your recommendation for something in a home theater system that won't take up half the room for its components?
I put one of these in the other day and was really impressed.
It has a built-in progressive DVD/CD player with Component out and S-Video inputs/outputs.
The Sub is powered by the built-in amp, but there is a standard sub woofer pre-out that will allow you to upgrade at a later time.
It retails for $1299 and absolutely blows the doors off of the $3000 Bose Life Style.